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Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick leaves the Philip Burton Federal Building after testifying on day... [+] two of the trial between Waymo and Uber Technologies on February 6, 2018 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was the first on the stand Wednesday morning as one of Silicon Valley's biggest legal battles continues.

Google's self-driving car spinoff, Waymo, is accusing Uber of stealing eight of its trade secrets. Many of the allegations revolve around Uber's acquisition of Otto, a startup founded by Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer. Google's self-driving car project later spun off into its own company, Waymo.

Kalanick began his testimony on Tuesday by admitting that he felt Uber had lagged behind in self-driving cars and Google was the market leader. Kalanick confirmed he had met with Levandowski multiple times when he was still employed by Google, but said the conversations were about Levandowski starting a company focused on trucking and Lidar. Kalanick did admit he was looking for a way to convince Levandowski to work for Uber.

"I wanted to hire Anthony and he wanted to start a company. So I tried to come up with a situation where he could feel like he started a company and I could feel like I hired him," Kalanick said on Tuesday.

Kalanick's testimony continued on Wednesday and Forbes is updating this liveblog from the courtroom in San Francisco. All times below are Pacific Time. Click here to refresh for updates.

6:45 a.m. The line is already over 50 people long to get into the courtroom for Kalanick's testimony. (Spoiler: Everyone won't fit since the lawyers have been taking up the first two rows on each side, leaving only three for the general public.) Travis Kalanick's father Donald is at the courthouse already, waiting with the rest of us.

7:23 a.m. The public is finally seated in the courtroom and Uber's having trouble fitting all of its lawyers in the appointed section. Kalanick's own legal and PR team is taking up an entire row too. The former Uber CEO is expected to take the stand within the hour, once the jury arrives.

Waymo has spent the last two days trying to build a narrative that Kalanick and Levandowski conspired from the beginning. Today, it's expected that at least some of the testimony will focus on the Otto acquisition due diligence report and how much Kalanick knew of Levandowski downloading or possessing Google's information before he came to Uber.

7:56 a.m. Travis Kalanick is back on the stand. His dad nods to him as he enters.

8:00 a.m. Kalanick says he knew a risk of acquiring Otto deal was that Google or Waymo could sue. "I think there’s lots of risks in a deal, that’s certainly one of them," Kalanick says. Waymo also shows an email sent from John Bares, the founder of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center, that an "X factor" of the deal is the "IP" or intellectual property, in the team's heads. Kalanick says he doesn't remember reading the email.

8:05 a.m. Email from Cameron Poetzscher, Uber's VP of Corporate Development, asked Kalanick if he agreed to cover Uber as part of Otto acquisition: "Did you tell Anthony that you would indemnify them if they get sued by G as part of or after the deal?" Kalanick says he didn't believe he did, but Uber eventually did indemnify Levandowski.

8:10 a.m. Waymo lawyers are going through the text message history between Levandowski and Kalanick in which they talked a lot about wanting to win in self-driving cars. (Kalanick's earlier testimony showed that he considered Google as the leader in the space.) On March 1, 2016, Kalanick told Levandowski "1. Burn the village," but he said in court that he didn't know what he meant. Later the same day, the two texted about the need to win the autonomous car race. “We do need to think through the strategy to take all the shortcuts we can find,” Levandowski texted Kalanick. The former CEO said that he didn't think that it was specific about Lidar, but about autonomous technology.

8:18 a.m. Waymo is showing a clip from the 1987 movie Wall Street in which unscrupulous corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) delivers his infamous "Greed Is Good" speech. Prior to the jury's arrival, the court debated at length over whether the clip was admissible in regards to a text. Levandowski sent Kalanick. The text included a link the movie clip, a suggestion that Kalanick deliver that speech and a winky emoticon. "That's a famous speech, right?" the Waymo attorney asks. Kalanick attempts to diminish its potential significance: "It's a movie, it's fake."

8:22 a.m.Waymo continues going through text messages. In one, Levandowski called a due diligence questionnaire "dumb" and said he was squeezing his attorneys "like toothpaste too." Uber commissioned the due diligence report prior to its Otto purchase to determine whether Otto employees took confidential information from Waymo and any other conflicts of interest. Kalanick says he doesn't recall whether he squeezed his own attorneys like toothpaste.

8:30 a.m. Uber presentation to the board listed two rationales for the Otto deal. First, "Lasers are critical to Uber’s AV development, and Ottomotto is expected to de-risk our current approach." Second, "Ottomotto could significantly enhance our overall AV efforts and potentially accelerate current timelines."

Deal overview showed Uber paid $100,000 upfront for the acquisition and also 12 million shares, valued at the time around $592 million, subject to hitting technical milestones.

8:40 a.m. Kalanick says he never saw the due diligence report or the indemnification agreement and admits he signed the indemnification agreement without reading it. The indemnification agreement says the company will indemnify any diligenced employee, including Levandowski, when it comes to "bad acts".

8:55 a.m. Waymo ends its questions by asking Kalanick if he considered Levandowski "a brother from another mother." He smiles. "That's something I've said a couple times, yes."

9:00 a.m. It's Uber's turn to cross-examine Kalanick. Karen Dunn, of Boies Schiller, is up for Uber's legal team. Uber starts by asking why Kalanick hired Levandowski in the first place. "We hired Anthony because we felt that he was incredibly visionary, a very good technologist, and he was also very charming," Kalanick says.

"How do you feel about him now?"

"This has been a difficult process. This makes it not as great as what we thought it was at the beginning."

9:05 a.m. Kalanick says he took a self-driving car ride from Google in 2013 around the time when the company invested in Uber. At the time, the relationship was "kinda like a little brother with a big brother." He first started feeling like Google was becoming a competitor in 2014 and was trying to get meetings with Larry Page to talk about a potential partnership. Kalanick says he felt they had an "understanding." When he got no response, Kalanick bought the Carnegie Mellon University robotics team to start Uber's Advanced Technologies Group. When he finally got his meeting with Larry Page, Kalanick says Page was "angsty."

9:15 a.m. Kalanick testifies that Levandowski never said he was going to bring trade secrets to Uber. (Waymo's argument is that the pair plotted together to have it be the case all along).

9:25 a.m. We have another Kalanick definition session. This time it's cheat codes: "Cheat codes are like elegant solutions to problems that haven’t already been thought of." Tesla is one example Kalanick pulls up. People buy cars with Tesla sensors, which send feedback to Tesla about their performance. "They’ve got people paying Tesla to help their self-driving car effort do better. We’d consider that a cheat code," he says.

9:45 a.m. We're back from a break, and Uber is asking Kalanick about why he thought Google might sue. Things had changed after Uber acquired the CMU robotics team, Kalanick says. "Larry was just very angry, very upset that we were doing his thing," he says. He calls Page "unpumped," which I'm interpreting as the opposite of Uber's cultural value of "superpumpedness."

9:50 a.m. Kalanick called Larry Page to talk about flying cars in October 2016 and to reassure him that Uber was not building flying cars. He says Page was upset about Uber hiring so many Google employees. "Your people are not your IP," he says he told Page.

9:55 a.m. Waymo gets its chance for a redirect and asks about the definition of cheat codes. Waymo's lawyer tries to embarrass Kalanick about his video game interests (he likes to play 2048, a single-player math puzzle). It's all to say that he should know a definition of the cheat code is also to skip a level and not do the work. Kalanick disagrees with that definition, saying that the publisher put cheat codes in games on purpose and that it's for fun.

10 a.m.: Kalanick's testimony is over and neither side says they'll be calling him back. He walks out of the courtroom with his dad's arm around him.

I’m a San Francisco-based staff writer for Forbes with a focus on Uber, the sharing economy, and startups. I previously worked for Business Insider, Gigaom, and Wired. I…

I’m a San Francisco-based staff writer for Forbes with a focus on Uber, the sharing economy, and startups. I previously worked for Business Insider, Gigaom, and Wired. I also spent a year as newspaper designer for Gannet. I’m a native of Atlanta, Georgia and a proud graduate from Indiana University’s journalism school. Email me story tips at bcarson [at] forbes.com or follow me on Twitter @bizcarson.